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The Fracking Boom, Seen From Above

Beyond North Dakota’s thousands of new oil wells, sprawling housing camps and expanded rail lines—of the sort captured outside the small town of Tioga by photographer Tristan Spinski—mark the physical presence of a 21st-century energy rush. Above, an aerial view of a fracking site surrounded by farmland, outside of Tioga.